Abolition Yesterday and Today. Frontiers, Law Enforcement and Abolitionist Resistance

On May 24, 2025, in Lausanne, sociologist Vanessa E. Thompson will take a look at the struggles against the violence of capitalist states and return to the origins of abolitionism in order to better think its perspectives Since its beginnings, the police have had the central function of maintaining the capitalist order based on private property, exploitation and various forms of oppression. Racism is one of the many mechanisms by which capitalis…